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<p>It has been a first person shooter, a flight simulator and a turn based strategy game in a world where even a glass window is utterly impervious to nuclear weapons, but never has X-COM&nbsp;UFO&nbsp;Defense been properly remade or reimagined.&nbsp; It looks like an indy company will beat everyone else to it with their soon to enter beta testing <a href="http://www.xenonauts.com/">Xenonauts</a>, which keeps the style of the original, admittedly aged game, and more importantly includes destrucatable terrain!&nbsp; No word yet on if you can fund your extermination efforts by selling equipment you made from alien tech to world governments but there is <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/18/xcom-remake/#more-59678">a lot of info on the game over at Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&quot;It&rsquo;s been a bit all-quiet for the Cold War-set X-COM reimagining Xenonauts for the last few months, but creators Goldhawk have finally broken cover to show how the major element &ndash; the ground combat &ndash; looks in action. The answer, you may not be terribly surprised to hear is &ldquo;quite a bit like X-COM&rdquo;, but clearly that&rsquo;s exactly what we want. Higher res and detail is a fine thing, but it&rsquo;s especially pleasing to see that destructible scenery, something so bafflingly absent from many of the commercial X-COM remakes, is present and correct.&quot;</p>
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